The last of the original founders of the notorious Pirate Bay BitTorrent site is in custody in Thailand ahead of an expected extradition to Sweden.

36-year old Fredrik Neij was arrested on Monday at the border with Laos reportedly wearing the exact same shirt he is wearing in a wanted poster. He has been a wanted man for several years after fleeing Sweden while out on bail, following a 2009 conviction for copyright infringement offences.

While no extradition deal exists between Sweden and Thailand, officials said they were working with Thai authorities to bring him back to his home country, according to The Local.

Another original founder of the popular share site, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, had also fled to Asia. He failed to attend an appeal hearing in Sweden in 2010, prompting an international arrest warrant being issued. In 2012, he was extradited from Cambodia to Denmark to face unrelated charges of hacking offences, resulting in a conviction and a three and a half year sentence in Denmark.

Peter Sunde was arrested in may in Sweden after he had also been on the run for two years. Carl Lundstroem was also sentenced to a year in prison as a "site financier".

The Pirate Bay was founded in 2003 and is still publicly enemy number one for the entertainment and software industries. After numerous failed attempts to shut it down, the industry and law enforcement have turned to blocking its use in selected countries, but the blocks are useless against scores of proxies that pop up all the time, as well as other censorship-circumvention measures.